Primary Care - Mental Health

Last update: 21 November 2012,
by Maureen Bell

Terminology is something of a problem in this area - links on this page cover shared care, general practice, primary care as it relates to mental health, and some liaison psychiatry.

Links are divided into Australian and overseas lists.

Lists of books and journal articles relating to primary care in mental health can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page. There is a sepatate list for general practice

Mental health staff have access to the journal Mental Health in Family Medicine (previously Primary Care Mental Health). You'll find links to both in the e-Journals A-Z list at the top right of this page.

Australian Links

CLIPP (Consultation and Liaison in Primary Care Psychiatry) Manual
From the Mental Health Branch, Department of Human Services, Victoria, 2000.

Discharge planning and the development of protocols between adult Area Mental Health Services and general practitioners
A background paper produced by the Mental Health Branch of the Victorian Department of Human Services in May 2005.

eMJA: Increased access to evidence-based primary mental health care: will the implementation match the rhetoric?
By Ian B. Hickie and Patrick D. McGorry.
MJA 2007; 187 (2): 100-103

From Woe to Go: Mental Health Clinical Practice Guidelines and General Practice...
From Woe to Go: Mental Health Clinical Practice Guidelines and General Practice. Positioning Dissemination Programs, by Jonine Penrose-Wall and Mark Harris. Centre for General Practice Integration Studies, University of New South Wales, 2000.

A Manual of mental health care in general practice
By John Davies. National Mental Health Strategy. First published February 2000. Revised August 2002, and June 2003.

Mental Health Programs in Remote Divisions of General Practice
Mental Health Programs in Remote Divisions of General Practice: PARC Knowledge Harvesting Program Issues Report. By Elizabeth Osman, Victoria Wade, and Eleanor Jackson Bowers. Primary Mental Health Care Australian Resource Centre, Department of General Practice, Flinders University, November 2004.

Mental Health Shared Care in Australia 2001
Report for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, by Chris Holmwood, Grace Groom, and Sally-Anne Nicholson. Primary Mental Care Australian Resource Centre, Department of General Practice, Flinders University and Australian Divisions of General Practice, June 2001.

To Their Full Potential: Research Report A: Evaluating five models of Divisions’ dissemination of Guidelines Depression in Young People for GPs CGPIS
This report describes the pilot National General Practice Guideline Implementation Program which encouraged Divisions to adopt guideline implementation programs using the Clinical Practice Guidelines Depression in Young People for General Practitioners (NHMRC, 1997) By Jonine Penrose-Wall. Published by the Centre for General Practice Integration Studies, School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales.

Overseas Links

Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative (CCMHI)
This site provides the full text of a number of papers and toolkits. The goal of the CCMHI is to enhance the capacity of primary health care providers to meet the mental health care needs of consumers through collaboration among key partners.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug Abuse in Family Practice
An American Family Physician monograph made possible with federal funds from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States.

Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care
By Chris Collins, Denise Levis Hewson, Richard Munger, and Torlen Wade. Milbank Memorial Fund, May 2010.

Family Physician Guide: For Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Early Psychosis and Substance Use Disorders
From the British Columbia Ministry of Health, Mental Health and Addictions Branch, March 2007.

Is remission of depressive symptoms in primary care a realistic goal? A meta-analysis
By Marliese Y Dawson, Erin E Michalak, Paul Waraich, J Ellen Anderson, and Raymond W Lam
BMC Family Practice 2004; 5: 19

Mental Disorders in Primary Care: A WHO Educational Package
Geneva, World Health Organization, 1998.

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Below is the description from the web site.
The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed journal that strives to bring together knowledge in medicine and psychiatry to improve patient care.

Primary Care: Tools for Common Mental Health Problems - Centre for Mental Health
A publication of the Centre for Mental Health (previously the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health,) This list is intended to support the development of Primary and Intermediate mental health care, by providing a resource of validated common mental health tools and questionnaires.

Primary Concerns: A Better Deal for Mental Health in Primary Care
London, Mental Health Foundation, January 2007.

Primary Health Organisations Service Development Toolkit for Mental Health Services in Primary Health Care
Wellington, New Zealand, Ministry of Health, 2004.

Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive– behaviour therapy and usual general practitioner care in the management of depression as well as mixed anxiety and depression in primary care
By M King, B Sibbald, E Ward, P Bower, M Lloyd, M Gabbay, and S Byford.
Health Technology Assessment 2000; Vol. 4: No. 19

Report of A Surgeon General's Working Meeting on the Integration of Mental Health Services and Primary Health Care (2001)

Shared Mental Health Care: A Bibliography and Overview
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry vol. 47: no.2. Supplement 1, April 2002

A Training Manual for Prevention of Mental Illness: Managing Emotional Symptoms and Problems in Primary Care
By E van Weel-Baumgarten, L Mynors-Wallis, E Jané-Llopis, & P Anderson. A training manual for prevention of mental illness: managing emotional symptoms and problems in primary care. Nijmegen: Radboud University of Nijmegen, 2005.

Treating Common Mental Health Problems Through Stepped Care: Informing, commissioning, provider management, and practice-based commissioning in primary care
By Mark Needham. Retrospective service audit of North West test sites, in support of the Department of Health’s business planning for psychological therapies, CSIP North West Regional Development Centre, 2007.

What is the evidence on effectiveness of capacity building of primary health care professionals in the detection, management, and outcome of depression?
Health Evidence Network (HEN), December 2004. HEN, initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, is an information service for public health and health care decision-makers in the WHO European Region.

WHO Guide to Mental and Neurological Health in Primary Care
Produced by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training for Mental Health, this Guide has been written to support primary care professionals, primary care organizations and local user groups in their delivery of primary care mental and neurological health services. World Health Organization, 2003-2004.